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Topic: Ipod 5G 30gig 1.2 firmware not found! (Read 6084 times)

My ipod (the one in the title), not a 5.5g (although I got it two days ago), can't be found by either ipodpatcher or the unofficial Rockbox Installer.It shows up as drive E: on My Computer, and iTunes recognizes it as well (and it's enabled for disk use). It has 1.2 firmware. What's going wrong? I installed rockbox on my ipod mini 1st gen using this computer as well.

It's not being recognized at all, either by RIX (sry RIX is the 3rd party Rockbox Installer X v1, i know you guys don't support it just throwing it in there just in case it means something to someone) or ipodpatcher.ipodpatcher says:(for ipodpatcher 0) Drive is not an iPod, aborting(for ipodpatcher 1) Error reading from disk: The parameter is incorrect.(for ipodpatcher 2-30) Error opening disk: The system cannot find the file specified.

I'm not sure I can really help you with this one.. I've been told that "Error reading from disk: The parameter is incorrect." is the message that the windows read() function returns to the program when it tries to use it.

Ok. I guess I'll just sit tight and hope for an update that will fix things for me. I'm still a little confused as to what exactly I did/didn't do to cause the problem, but thanks for your help. I'll try looking more into 'Error reading from disk: The parameter is incorrect'.

to fix rockbox on the 5G with firmware 1.2 just repatch the bootloader, (with iPodlinux you have to go into linux(live CD or otherwise) and redefine the partition table) the Apple installer overwrites it as FAT32

to which mrmagic526 says

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Yes that's all you need to do is extract the new firmware patch it and then reload it and it works

Unfortunately I don't know what it means to 'repatch the bootloader'. Could someone enlighten me on that?

I've got the same problem. Apparently the 5g's running 1.2 Firmware have a problem being detected by ipodpatcher, which si where you get that "Parameter is incorrect" error. I get it too only when using ipodpatcher 1, and I've tried 0-30. 0 is my main hard drive, 1 is the ipod.

There's a fix to this posted in another forum, but from what i've been told, Rockbox will have to be adapted to the 2048bit sector size in the new firmware. (If I'm wrong someone, please correct me... I'm still somewhat new to this =)

If there's anything I can do to help, feel free to message me. I've got a new 5g with the 1.2 FW installed, and i'm desperate to get away from iTunes.

And how do you just "repatch the bootloader" so that you can get it to work on a 5g with 1.2 as listed below?

Ok. I guess I'll just sit tight and hope for an update that will fix things for me. I'm still a little confused as to what exactly I did/didn't do to cause the problem, but thanks for your help. I'll try looking more into 'Error reading from disk: The parameter is incorrect'.

to fix rockbox on the 5G with firmware 1.2 just repatch the bootloader, (with iPodlinux you have to go into linux(live CD or otherwise) and redefine the partition table) the Apple installer overwrites it as FAT32

to which mrmagic526 says

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Yes that's all you need to do is extract the new firmware patch it and then reload it and it works

Unfortunately I don't know what it means to 'repatch the bootloader'. Could someone enlighten me on that?